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In March 2023, Norilsk Nickel launched a corporate program for employees

Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 6:09 am
by tanjimajuha20
Russian mining and metallurgical company Norilsk Nickel has paid its employees dividends for the first time on digital financial assets (DFA) minetoken, which correspond to dividends on the company's shares.

called "Digital Investor". According to the company's press service, this initiative has no analogues on the market. Each participant in the program receives a digital financial asset called minetoken, tied in value to the company's shares. These assets are traded on the Atomize platform. Thus, the income from the company's activities goes to its employees.

The issuer of minetoken ecuador whatsapp number database is the company "Digital assets". "We see that more and more companies are moving from the usual format of motivating employees to more advanced and flexibly structured financial instruments related to the capitalization of the company," said Maxim Trofimov, CEO of Digital Assets LLC.

At the end of 2023, the board of directors of Norilsk Nickel recommended paying dividends in the amount of 915.33 rubles per share of the company, shareholders approved the payments. "The first income from minetoken has already been received by 51.3 thousand employees in Norilsk, Arkhangelsk, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Saratov and Sochi. Soon, employees from the Murmansk region, Krasnoyarsk and Zabaikalsky territories will receive tokens," a representative of the Norilsk Nickel press service told a ComNews correspondent.

"This is the first time in Russia that a large company has decided to launch such a motivation program for employees. There are examples in the world where people receive their salaries, or part of their salaries and bonuses, in the form of cryptocurrencies. For example, the contract between football player Messi and the PSG club states that part of his salary will come in the form of the PSG token, which the club created in January 2020. However, Norilsk Nickel did something different. The company created a system for optimizing the management of corporate securities actions. In fact, issuing digital financial assets on shares will be cheaper than stock options for the issuer," explained Ani Aslanyan, founder of the Blockchain.rf Telegram channel.

FG Finam analyst Leonid Delitsyn believes that other companies may follow Norilsk Nickel's example: "Employees can potentially earn more on digital assets than in the traditional way, especially given the rise in real estate prices. The company is acting in a comprehensive manner, promoting an innovative tool among those who understand its business. Other large companies with highly paid employees may follow Norilsk Nickel's example. Digital tools are not yet very effective for small companies, and low-paid employees of large companies do not have the funds to invest and do not have the opportunity to take risks."